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The Star Wars Holiday Special was only shown once in the US. The two-hour show aired just before Thanksgiving in 1978, and told the story of A New Hope's Chewbacca and his family on "life day," an invented celebration of friendship and general niceness. The Holiday Special was designed to keep Star Wars in the minds of the toy-buying populace as audiences waited for The Empire Strikes Back. It was so excruciating that George Lucas once said if he had time, he'd like to smash every copy left in the world with a sledgehammer.

Thirty-five years later, and of all the baffling things that came together to make the Star Wars Holiday Special so infamous, the inclusion of four-armed chef Gormaanda feels perhaps the most egregious. She appears...

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Youtube Direktlego, via The Verge

Ein funtionierender Hot Rod aus einer halben Million Legosteinen und einem luftbetriebenen Motor mit 256 Kolben. Impressive, most impressive!

- More than 500,000 LEGO pieces were used.
- The car engine is made from standard Lego pieces and runs on air!
- The engine has four orbital engines and a total of 256 pistons.
- Top speed is not very fast, around 20-30km (We were scared of a lego explosion so we drove it slowly)
- It was built in Romania and shipped to a secret location in suburban Melbourne.
- It’s a Hot Rod design, mainly because hot rods are cool.

Super Awesome Micro Project

Nothing says Christmas like animated GIFs. Lucky for all of us, London-based artist and designer Ryan Todd has curated an amazing collection of holiday-themed GIFs, from talented artists like Skip Hursh, Robin Davey, Jack Hudson, and many more. The GIFs run the gamut from whimsical to absurd, and cover a huge range of visual styles that includes at least one pixel-art Santa. You can check out a small selection below, but be sure to check out the official site for the whole set.

By Cento Lodigiani

By Stephen McNally

By Skip Hursh

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Um die Hand dieses Herrn zu retten, hat man sie dem Mann kurzerhand an den Fuß genäht. Klingt logisch.

Chinese doctors have saved a man’s severed hand by grafting it to his ankle, it is reported. Xiao Wei lost his right hand in an accident at work but could not have it reattached to his arm right away. Instead, the hand was kept alive by stitching it to Mr Wei’s left ankle and “borrowing” a blood supply from arteries in the leg.

Severed hand kept alive on man’s ankle (via JWZ)

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